December 5, 1968 -
Canadian-American novelist
Author of "My Happy Life" (for which she won the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2003), "Love in Infant Monkeys" (for which she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010), "Magnificence" (for which she was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012) and "A Children's Bible" (for which she was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2020)